Bill Amendment: IL HB0348 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly

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Bill Title: CONSTITUTION AMEND PUBLICATION

Status: 2017-10-27 - Bill Dead - No Positive Action Taken - Amendatory Veto [HB0348 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2017-HB0348-House_Amendment_001.html

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Rep. Barbara Flynn Currie

Filed: 3/29/2017

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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 348
AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 348 by replacing
everything after the enacting clause with the following:
"Section 5. The Illinois Constitutional Amendment Act is
amended by changing Section 2 as follows:
(5 ILCS 20/2) (from Ch. 1, par. 103)
Sec. 2.
(a) The General Assembly in submitting an amendment to the
Constitution to the electors, or the proponents of an amendment
to Article IV of the Constitution submitted by petition, shall
prepare a brief explanation of such amendment, a brief argument
in favor of the same, and the form in which such amendment will
appear on the separate ballot as provided by Section 16-6 of
the Election Code, as amended. The minority of the General
Assembly, or if there is no minority, anyone designated by the
General Assembly shall prepare a brief argument against such

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amendment. The explanation, the arguments for and against each
constitutional amendment, and the form in which the amendment
will appear on the ballot (with striking and underscoring)
shall be filed in the Office of the Secretary of State no later
than July 1 of the year in which the amendment shall appear on
the ballot.
(b) In the case of an amendment to Article IV of the
Constitution initiated pursuant to Section 3 of Article XIV of
the Constitution, the proponents of the amendment shall prepare
a brief explanation of such amendment and a brief argument in
favor of the same. For purposes of this subsection (b), the
proponents shall be those persons so designated at the time of
the filing of the petition as provided in Section 10-8 of the
Election Code. A brief argument against such amendment shall be
prepared by , and the opponents shall be those members of the
General Assembly opposing such amendment, or if there are none,
anyone designated by the General Assembly and such opponents
shall prepare a brief argument against such amendment. The
proponent's explanation and argument in favor of and the
opponents argument against an amendment to Article IV initiated
by petition must be submitted to the Attorney General by July
1, who may rewrite them for accuracy and fairness. The Attorney
General shall prepare the form in which such amendment will
appear on the ballot (with striking and underscoring). The
explanation, the arguments for and against each constitutional
amendment, and the form in which the amendment will appear on

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the separate ballot (with striking and underscoring) shall be
filed in the Office office of the Secretary of State no later
than 30 days after the State Board of Elections has certified
the with the proposed amendment.
(c) Within 30 days of receipt of the information related to
the amendment, the Office of the Secretary of State shall
publish the materials on a publicly accessible Internet website
controlled by the Office of the Secretary of State, including
an electronic version that may be downloaded. Additionally, the
Office shall provide an electronic copy to the State Board of
Elections and each election authority in the State.
(d) No later than one month before the general election,
each election authority shall publish the information received
from the Secretary of State on their Internet website and shall
electronically mail the information to any registered voter who
has provided the Board or the election authority with an
electronic mail address.
(e) At least one month before the general next election at
which the amendment appears on the ballot of members of the
General Assembly, following the passage of the proposed
amendment, the Secretary of State shall publish the explanation
of the amendment, the arguments for and against the amendment,
the form in which the amendment will appear on the ballot (with
striking and underscoring), and a link to the information
published on the website, in full in 8 point type, or the
equivalent thereto, in at least one secular newspaper of

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general circulation in every county in this State in which a
newspaper is published. In counties in which 2 or more
newspapers are published, the Secretary of State shall cause
such amendment to be published in at least 2 newspapers. In
counties having a population of 500,000 or more, such amendment
shall be published in not less than 6 newspapers of general
circulation. After the first publication, the publication of
such amendment shall be repeated once each week for 2
consecutive weeks. In selecting newspapers in which to publish
such amendment the Secretary of State shall have regard solely
to the circulation of such newspapers, selecting secular
newspapers in every case having the largest circulation. The
proposed amendment shall have a notice prefixed thereto in said
publications, that at such election the proposed amendment will
be submitted to the electors for adoption or rejection, and at
the end of the official publication, he shall also publish the
form in which the proposed amendment will appear on the
separate ballot. The Secretary of State shall fix the
publication fees to be paid newspapers for making such
publication, but in no case shall such publication fee exceed
the amount charged by such newspapers to private individuals
for a like publication.
(f) The General Assembly may, by resolution, direct the
Secretary of State to distribute to the electors a pamphlet
containing In addition to the notice hereby required to be
published, the Secretary of State shall also cause the existing

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form of the constitutional provision proposed to be amended,
the proposed amendment (with striking and underscoring), the
explanation of the same, the arguments for and against the
same, and the form in which such amendment will appear on the
separate ballot, to be published in pamphlet form in 8 point
type or the equivalent thereto; and the Secretary of State
shall mail such pamphlet to every mailing address in the State,
addressed to the attention of the Postal Patron. The Secretary
of State He shall also maintain a reasonable supply of such
pamphlets so as to make them available to any person requesting
one.
(Source: P.A. 98-463, eff. 8-16-13.)".